4/10/07) U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has rocketed to the top of the field of contenders for the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary crown, leaving the candidacy of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in a cloud of dust.

The news stunned political experts and pundits.

Obama has started a brush fire across the country that Clinton may find difficult to quench, said Francis Marion University polit1ical scientist Neal Thigpen.

The Illinois senators showing represents a complete turnaround for Obama who trailed in earlier South Carolina surveys.

Today, Obama holds a comfortable lead in South Carolina, according to a new telephone poll.

He leads with 34 percent of the Democratic primary vote, followed by Clinton with 20 percent.

What is worrisome for the Clinton campaign is that she is in danger of slipping into third place in South Carolina. The poll shows that former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is only three percentage points away from overtaking Clinton.

So let's see, Edwards leads in Iowa, Obama in SC, and Hillary is losing ground fast in NH. I've said it before and I'll say it again. HILLARY SUCKS!!! I HOPE HER WHOLE CAMPAIGN IS A HUGE EMBARASSMENT!!!

Think of where she would be if she HADN’T bought off that black political leader/consultant for $250K or whatever it was. She just needs to come up with more contracts like that for another 5 to 50,000 leaders in the community. Sounds like an assignment for Bubba!

I don’t care. I don’t want her or her slimeball husband anywhere near the white house. As of right now, there aren’t any candidates on our side who inspire me. So my only concern for 2008 is seeing Hillary not elected. After that, we’ll probably get a lousy candidate regardless of who wins, but atleast it won’t be her

Edwards is the sleaziest, the phoniest and the biggest hypocrite of them all. Hillary is about the same. I saw Obama on Letterman last night and somewhere in there he threw something in that I wasn't expecting from a lib. America is still the last great bastion of hope and freedom in the world . Wow. Obama is proceeding cautiously.

Over the weekend (think it was Sunday night) I was watching Edwards do a townhall type thing on C-Span. Some college kid asked him, ‘Senator, what do we do about Iran ?’ He replied ‘We need to get our European allies together and talk to them [Iran]’ before quickly moving on to talk about healthcare with another audience member. That there summed up his whole Iran strategy.

I got this via email this morning. I cannot attest to it being factual.

Senator Hillary Clinton was invited to address a major gathering of The American Indian Nation two weeks ago in upper New York State. She spoke for almost an hour on her future plans for increasing every Native American's present standard of living, should she one day become the first female President.

She referred to her career as a New York Senator, how she had signed "yes" for every Indian issue that came to her desk for approval. Although the Senator was vague on the details of her plan, she seemed most enthusiastic about her future ideas for helping her "red sisters and brothers".

At the conclusion of her speech, the Tribes presented the Senator with a plaque inscribed with her new Indian name - Walking Eagle.

The proud Senator then departed in her motorcade, waving to the crowds. A news reporter later inquired of the group of chiefs of how they had come to select the new name given to the Senator.

They explained that Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of crap it can no longer fly.

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posted on 04/10/2007 2:31:24 PM PDT
by Ben Mugged
(Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)

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